Oz ,'Storyteller'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I've read all your damn books, woman! I know how she sets a frickin' leg!
Ha!
That was one of my biggest problems with that last book--it was just a rehash of so many things she'd already covered, from botany and Stone Age healing practices to all of the characters' personal issues. I was just so sick of it all, and the fact that it was written in a mindnumbingly boring fashion didn't help anything.
I'm only 20 chapters into the first Hunger Games book and it already turned me into an emotional mess.
understandable, zuisa! i was reading it at work one day and got to a part that made me cry. i had to turn around to make sure no one could see.
When I was reading last night I got to the part where Rue dies and Katniss sings to her and oh my goodness was I a mess. I hear that the other two books in the trilogy don't exactly get any happier so I am prepared for lots of sadness in my very near future.
I was reading Catching Fire during Sara's swimming lesson last week, and got to a part that absolutely shocked me -- like take my breath away shock -- and teared up.
Luckily, it was so humid in there I don't think anyone noticed.
zuisa, I got to that part while I was eating lunch at Chipolte. Thankfully I could cover the tears with a fake hot salsa cough. Man, I finally had to not read them while out at lunch 'cause you never know when a gut punch is coming.
I read the second one on a really bad day and wept for miles. I'd like to call it healthy and cathartic, but I don't even know.
that part killed me too, zuisa. i'm really fighting the urge to re-read all of them. i have a habit of zooming through books and then if i love them i instantly want to re-read.
I just finished the first book. Wow was that an emotional roller coaster. When they ever announced that there could only be one winner after all, I think I nearly died. I have the next book already but I think I need a break from the stress.
Sorry for the spammy Hunger Games serial posting! I just don't know anyone else who has read them, really.
I have about 100 pages of Catching Fire left and I have a really easy substituting gig today but I am terrified to start reading because I don't want to break down weeping in front of all the students. So far I've only cried reading this one once, but. Man. Talk about bleak.
I frequently want to just slam the book shut and yell AND THEN PEETA AND KATNISS LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END.